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Tooting Commons
'With 92 hectares (221 acres), Tooting Common is the largest of our open spaces. The common is managed with the aim of keeping much of its natural character ... Tooting Bec Common and Tooting Graveney Common, together with Streatham Green are the remains of common land that once stretched as far as Mitcham. An avenue of trees marks the former boundary line between the two commons, now to all intents and purposes one.'
'The landscape comprises areas that are more natural, with a number of woods and grassland, and other areas have been more formally landscaped for recreation or sporting activities. An avenue of oak trees remains along Dr Johnson Avenue that was planted in the late C16th to commemorate a visit by Elizabeth I; other avenues include horse chestnuts planted in the C19th, oaks planted in the C17th by Garrad's Road, and a line of elms that marked the southern boundary along Tooting Bec Road.'
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